Running Brave is a movie that originally hit the big screen in 1983, and recently hit the small screen on the classroom's DVD in the English literature class in the UPRRP campus. It is based on the true tale of the Native American Billy Mills, as he left his reservation to study in the white world and run in the white world and eventually beat everyone in the Tokyo Olympics in 1964.
The story itself is amazing. It's the story everyone likes about the kid that is not from here and he beat all odds and all expectation to become triumphant. By the end of the movie it showed a representation of the race he won in 1964 (original shown below).
Apart from all of this, the story is mostly about overcoming prejudice and stereotypes. In many parts of the movie one can see this from the "I don't want an Indian running for me", "Indians are quitters' from the coach, to the "I'm used to getting pushed by white men" and the white hate from Eddie (an Indian), but even our main character has a casts away someone when he says there is only one other Indian in campus, but she's fat. This last one was just said as a small joke to add in but it's just adding this prejudice to Billy Mills. It could be taken as a positive line by other means saying no one really escapes being prejudice and that line gave the character more credibility, but in the end its counter productive in a movie where one of the main goals is showing that one can overcome those and shouldn't be like that.
Final thoughts on the movie: It was very enjoyable, it had good scenery, and acting, and over all it was good.
Like Alexis, I find the comment on the "fat Indian girl" a little curious. Discrimination based on weight isn't something we really think about very often, and though it's played off as a joke on the movie, the message given is that Billy would rather be alone than with the fat girl.
I see your point on how the line on "but she's fat" is counterproductive. I hadn't really thought of it that way...
ReplyDeleteI wonder how he would be 20 years later if he dropped out of his scholarship.
ReplyDeleteLike Alexis, I find the comment on the "fat Indian girl" a little curious. Discrimination based on weight isn't something we really think about very often, and though it's played off as a joke on the movie, the message given is that Billy would rather be alone than with the fat girl.
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